Posted on 05/15/2017 2:15:10 AM PDT by markomalley
A complaint is being filed against two officers from the Los Angeles Police Department, after they defended a protester assaulting and threatening a supporter of President Donald Trump.
After antifa announced their intentions to deface Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, supporters of the president held a counter-rally to defend it. There were 75-100 Trump supporters present, outnumbering antifa.
During the event, one of the anti-Trump protesters assaulted Timothy Treadstone, better known as Baked Alaska, who was livestreaming a conflict between the protester and a woman who was out to defend the star.
“The dude literally grabbed my phone and hand, he got in my face saying he was going to knock me out and the cops said that was okay,” Treadstone told Big League Politics. “They were on ANTIFA & BLM side all day it was disgusting.”
When police intervened, it was not to stop the aggressive protester who had just attempted to knock Treadstone’s phone out of his hand while threatening to knock him out.
“You’re going to get that camera out of my face or I’m going to knock you the f-ck out,” the aggressor tells Treadstone as the police made their way over to the altercation.
Immediately, the officers sided with the protester, telling Treadstone that he needed to move further down the sidewalk away from where they were.
“He grabbed my camera and said he was going to knock me the f-ck out!” Treadstone exclaimed.
The officer responded saying, “I understand that,” while continuing to demand that Treadstone leave the area of public sidewalk the pro-Trump group was gathered on.
“You need to go down there right now,” the officer demanded.
“Just me?” Treadstone asked.
“Yes, because as soon as you go down there all these people will follow,” the officer said.
“He came up and threatened to knock me out!” Treadstone attempted to report, once again.
At this point, the first officer appears to call for backup, as the other cop tells Treadstone, “I don’t care.”
“He can say what he wants,” the second officer asserts.
“He can say he’s going to knock me out and grab me?” Treadstone asks.
“He can say what he wants — they’re words,” the officer says of the violent threat.
The officer then begins petulantly whining for Treadstone to leave him alone.
Treadstone has noted that the first officer was chewing tobacco, which in itself is a violation of the LAPD’s rules. It is “prohibited while on duty, or off-duty while in uniform.”
Earlier in the day, a protester claimed that he was a member of the crips and threatened to shoot Treadstone, which police also refused to do anything about.
“It’s a shame that our law enforcement who gets incredible support from Trump supporters would refuse to defend an attack from the very people who hate them and want them dead,” Treadstone told BLP, noting that the officers were also caught on his livestream shaking hands with the members of antifa.
Treadstone informed BLP that while we were speaking he was in the middle of filing a complaint against the officers over their conduct.
That’s a civil right lawsuit waiting to happen. Hope LAPD has good insurance.
But use a racial slur, and you're off to jail.
Really?
LA police tossed out Trump supporters, who were being peaceful, from Kerosene Maxine Water's town hall.
TRUMP SUPPORTERS TOSSED FROM MAXINE WATERS TOWNHALL WHEN RACIST NAUI HAS SJW MELTDOWN
Noted. LAPD has chosen sides.
Personally, legal or not, I would dislike someone sticking a camera in my face. We now see people do it to police all the time. Everybody wanting to be the victim.
Yes, the two involved officers have chosen sides — and that is the side of Antigua & BLM. I note that the two officers likely have IQs only about 10 points above the 85 IQ of the moron BLM loudmouth.
Conservatives need to realize that the police are not our friends, most nothing but democrat controlled union thugs.
Friday and Gannon, they ain’t.
Depends on where you live. In CA, I’d say what you posted is probably true.
Of course the LAPD defended the Marxist scum.
Yes....California, please secede.
Even the PRNY where I currently reside is no where near as bad as CA. (Though when and if they secede I plan to move to America.....I don’t see it here either)
I don't. I hope the cops are sued as individuals for dereliction of duty.
Antifa should be prosecuted as domestic terrorists and the two cops should be charges with complicity to commit domestic terrorism.
This is what I would expect from the Minneapolis PD.
Friday and Gannon, they ain’t.
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“Just the facts, Ma’am.”
Didn’t Timothy Treadstone get eaten by a bear?
PRNY? I grew up in upstate NY and don’t recognize the initialism.
“He can say what he wants — they’re words,” the officer says of the violent threat.
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No he can’t
CA Penal Code 422.
(a) Any person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement, made verbally, in writing, or by means of an electronic communication device, is to be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, which, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened, a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family’s safety, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or by imprisonment in the state prison.
LAPD has turned into a bunch of security guards, with the real emphasis on insecurity.
Calling the police in the city has become a grotesque joke.
Though what should one expect in a city and state run by democraps?
You don’t expect the cops to know the law do you?? I take a threat of bodily harm the same as an actual attempt. As such it will receive the maximum brutal defensive retaliation possible.
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